Nupur Vanderlick > Nupur's Quotes

“I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.”
― Henry James

“All books are judged by their covers until they are read.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge.”
― Thomas Cleary (Ways of Warriors Codes of Kings)

“Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie